Celestia goes to the market and buys some pretzel sticks. She then proceeds to eat them, as one is wont to do with pretzel sticks. Then Super Trampoline comes over to complain about how hard writing is.

You're a depressed, uncaring nightowl of a fullgrown stallion who still lives with his mother, and you're moving to Ponyville, one of the most happy-go-lucky active towns in Equestria. You're screwed....

You're a fellow named Anon, taking a walk one day to a friends house. She's helped you for the past four years, and has always been by your side. As you're taking a walk to her house, you spend the time to remember what happened back

"And so you rise to this challenge expecting that revolution will be simple?" Obsidian snarled, his incredulity clear in his voice. "I suppose it would be, had you not spent your entire life fighting for the wrong side."

Bon Bon has been not entirely truthful over the years with her "Best Friend" Lyra, who finally she demands she come completely clean. Some of the secrets aired are mundane at best. But others? Well, you'll just have to read the story, won't you?

Luna, banished to a thousand hours of community service, discovers the real reason Ponyville is crazy, tries to get foalnapped, and contends with Bon Bon's claim that the griffons are imaginary creatures.

You're drenched in sweat and ennui. She's fighting the enemy, and you're fighting depression. Stuck forever in a nowhere town, you try to rise above inertia, but you only end up feeling useless. You're always feeling that way.

But speaking of thinking and feeling, you're feeling another headache coming on.

Match this up with the line of "thick lead pipes," and we get more understanding of why we are getting this headache.

Maybe it's the alchemical byproducts in the water.

Cool thing here is, and you may not have noticed it, is that water means rebirth, or life in literature. What's so cool, is that this story shows the change of a couple as one heads off to war, and one stays home and rots in their own ennui. There is also the change of the nature of Equestria, and how meanings of certain aspects of life are being reborn into a new understanding of reality.

Another thing I'm reminded of when reading this, is old twentieth century writers. In that sense, ones that wrote about "The Great War," or "World War I" as it's known today.

Last thought was how I liked the use of second-person, and found it justified, due to how it draws us in as a reader. A literary device that's used effectively, and makes us attached to these characters, in just a brief one-thousand word short story.

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